# Sturrakeen, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Omey, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Storraicín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 375,550 m² (37.56 ha, 92.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,161 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Omey, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/omey.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Sillerna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 466 people lived in 191 households in the Sillerna electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18386 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63954 - Centre: latitude 53.532727, longitude -10.157906 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sturrakeen, from 8 m² to 62,650 m² (6.27 ha, 15.48 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1930582: 62,650 m² (6.27 ha, 15.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930582.md - Parcel 1930583: 60,066 m² (6.01 ha, 14.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930583.md - Parcel 1968116: 59,433 m² (5.94 ha, 14.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968116.md - Parcel 1968121: 58,623 m² (5.86 ha, 14.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968121.md - Parcel 1968120: 48,815 m² (4.88 ha, 12.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968120.md - Parcel 1930581: 5,546 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930581.md - Parcel 1968119: 1,215 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968119.md - Parcel 5007398: 1,107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5007398.md - Parcel 1968117: 939 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968117.md - Parcel 1930579: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930579.md - Parcel 1930578: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930578.md - Parcel 1968118: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968118.md - Parcel 1930580: 264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930580.md - Parcel 1930577: 8 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930577.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Sturrakeen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Apr 2020, Galway County Council 20496: Refused. Retention, 2 homes. to 1) retain and complete partially constructed dwelling house including the lowering of existing roof structure to reduce the ridge height, 2) build new extension to rear of dwelling house and 3) construct new effluent treatment system and polishing filter. Gross floor space of proposed works; 13.35sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained; 106.40sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20496/0 - 6 Feb 2020, Galway County Council 20132: N/a. Retention, 2 homes. to (1) retain and complete partially constructed dwelling house including the lowering of existing roof structure to reduce the ridge height (2) build new extension to rear of dwelling house and (3) construct new effluent treatment system and polishing filter. Gross floor space of proposed works: 13.35 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 106.40 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20132/0 - 13 Jul 2017, Galway County Council 171037: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. & completion of a partially constructed dwelling house including amending and lowering of existing roof structure to reduce the ridge height and (2) retain and complete effluent treatment systems and percolation area as approved under planning reg. Ref. No's 06/2831 & (EOD) 11/1713. Gross floor space of work to be retained 167sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171037/0 - 12 Apr 2017, Galway County Council 17474: N/a. Retention. (1) retain and complete a partially constructed dwelling house and (2) retain and complete effluent treatment system and percolation area as approved under planning reg. Ref. No's 06/2831 & (EOD) 11/1713. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 183.40 sqm.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17474/0 - 15 Feb 2017, Galway County Council 17176: N/a. Retention. to (1) retain and complete a partially constructed dwelling house and (2) retain and complete effluent treatment system and percolation area as approved under planning reg. Ref. No's 06/2831 & (EOD) 11/1713. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 183.40 sqm.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17176/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Omey Island Machair SAC, site code 001309, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001309 - Special Protection Area: Inishbofin, Omey Island and Turbot Island SPA, site code 004231, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004231 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Omey Island Machair, site code 001309 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA021-035: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA021-035----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - GA021-047: Midden, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA021-047----. In sand dunes on the N shoreline of Omey Island, c. 90m to the E of another midden (GA021-046----). This midden (L c. 55m) is exposed intermittently in the dunes and is obscured in places by the recent collapse of overhanging sod and sand. It is mainly composed of limpet shells but some razor and periwinkle shells are also visible. Some flecks of charcoal are also evident through the shell deposit. This area of dunes has been heavily eroded as evidenced by the field posts now dangling in front of them. Further middens (GA021-045---- and GA021-039002-) are evident c. 170m and c. 195m to the WNW and NW respectively. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 May 2014 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sturrakeen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Sturrakeen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sturrakeen. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/sturrakeen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/sturrakeen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/sturrakeen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sturrakeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cartoorbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartoorbeg.md - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloon-61197.md - Gooreen: https://everytownland.com/galway/gooreen.md - Gooreenatinny: https://everytownland.com/galway/gooreenatinny.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/sturrakeen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/sturrakeen